Peter Farquhar and Andrew Ramadge report: The relationship between the world’s biggest web company and Australia’s communications minister appears to have broken down entirely. Google Australia head of engineering Alan Noble today said the search giant was all but resigned to the fact that Stephen Conroy had singled it out as the poster boy for…
Category: Non-U.S.
The Pirate Bay responds to Eircom
Sent to me by Brian Honan, The Pirate Bay’s response to Eircom’s three-strikes rule: Underneath the image, it says, “#failcom introduced orwellian laws. hide yourself.”
Eircom to cut broadband over illegal downloads
John Collins reports: Eircom will from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally. Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of “graduated response” is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who…
Ca: Private information is being hacked
Dear MP and others: This is an extremely urgent message. Read the correspondence below. Your information is at grave risk, putting you, your home, your property and family in danger. Please contact your MP and others on this dangerous situation. As you all well know, the information has already been hacked numerous times as has…